Welcome to the NewsHour.

We're following several major stories tonight, including an attack on a synagogue in Michigan

and a shooting at Old Dominion University in Virginia.

But first, to the war with Iran.

The new supreme leader of Iran, Mosheba Khomeini, vowed in a written statement today that Iran's

retaliation throughout the Gulf will continue and the

widening conflict pushed oil back above $100 a barrel rattling global markets. We start

our coverage again tonight with special correspondent Leila Malana Allen in Qatar.

After 13 days of war, Iran punctuated its strikes with a fiery statement, read aloud today by a news anchor on Iranian state TV.

We will not refrain from avenging the blood of your martyrs.

They're the first words in this war from Ayatollah Majtabh Khanenei installed just this week

after the former supreme leader, his father, Ali Khomeini, was assassinated by U.S. Israeli bombardment

on day one. That attack killed his wife, son and mother as well. Today's statement dismissed

any hope of Iran backing down from its unrelenting attacks in the Gulf.

As we had given an explicit warning and without carrying out any aggression against those regional countries,

we remain committed to the necessity of friendship between ourselves and those neighbors and have merely targeted those U.S. bases.

From now on, we will also be compelled to continue this action.

And on the global oil supply.

Certainly, the leverage of blocking the Strait of Hormuz must continue to be used,

and opening other fronts where the enemy is highly vulnerable if the war continues

will be considered while observing strategic interests.

It comes as Iran has ramped up its assault on the narrow but critical straight of Hormuz.

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